State Election in Hamburg 1997

Judgement on parties and politicians in the metropolitan council
election. Political questions. Topics: Most important political
problems in Hamburg; intent to participate in the metropolitan council
election; preference for absentee ballot; party preference; point in
time and certainty of one´s voting decision; importance of federal
politics for one´s own voting decision at state level; behavior at the
polls in the last metropolitan council election; attitude to a
one-party government of the SPD in the metropolitan council; coalition
preference; sympathy scale for selected parties on federal and city
level; satisfaction with achievements of the senate, individual
partners of the government, the CDU opposition and the
Greens/GAL-opposition as well as the Federal Government (scale);
knowledge about the top candidates of the CDU and SPD for the office of
mayor; sympathy scale for selected top politicians in Hamburg; interest
in politics; preference for Voscherau or Beust as First Mayor in
Hamburg; comparison of the credibility, energy, sympathy, sense of
responsibility and expertise of the two top politicians; judgement on
the personal economic situation and the economic situation in Hamburg;
expected economic development in Hamburg and comparison of the economic
situation of the city state with the rest of the western federal
territory; party in Hamburg most able to improve the economic situation
in the area of job creation, the housing market, the fight against
crime and traffic policy; personal fear of crime; judgement on the
achievements of the First Mayor Voscherau; expected election winner in
the metropolitan council election; expectation of a one-party
government of the SPD; chances of the FDP, the STATT party and the
Republicans in the metropolitan council election. Demography: age
(classified); sex; marital status; number of children; non-school-age
children; children between the ages of 6 to 12 years; religious
denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training;
occupational position; extent of employment; size of household;
composition of household; head of household; party inclination; party
identification; union membership; personal job security; jeopardy to
job in one´s circle of friends.